On Thursday 10 Nov 2011 22:18:57 Peter Linnell wrote:
On 11/10/2011 09:48 PM, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
Am Thu 10 Nov 2011 09:38:59 PM CET schrieb Martin Schlander
<martin.schlander@gmail.com>:
Torsdag den 10. november 2011 11:37:14 skrev Stephan Kulow:
We might want to change the live isos to only have english and more language supported by the installation though. For this we need to split yast2-trans into parts needed by installer and rest though.
If you think it is worth the trouble, I could change yast2-trans accordingly. Please, open an enhancement bug or a openfate entry.
Bonus points, if you propose package names and list files that must be available during installation.
I've added comments here: https://features.opensuse.org/308017
Please add technical details which would needed to implement this. I am sorry I am not a yast or installer expert.
Peter
I think choosing the language first is a great change for the installer and increasing the size of the images looks like it would be necessary to accommodate this unless we do as Sascha suggests and try to download the il8n packs via the net. If the live CD's are replaced by Live DVD's, what's the size we should be aiming for? How much common ground is there between the GNOME and KDE images and can we actually squeeze both desktops onto the same Live image? Can we keep the size reasonable if we do this? *Should* we put both desktops on the same live image if we can? (please lets not get distracted by any KDE Vs Gnome arguments for this). If we *can* squeeze both desktops onto a live DVD, why shouldn't the full DVD be boot-able as well? Hell, if we can make the full DVD boot-able, why have smaller sized media at all? And lastly, there will obviously be some resistance to dropping the live CD's. "Some people still use dialup", "Not everyone has a DVD burner/player" being the most obvious (valid) reasons to not wish to see this change. My own opinion on this is that if it takes a whole day to download a CD image via dial-up, there's no problem with waiting another 12 hours or even 2 or more days. We have torrents and metalink downloaders to accomodate this, nobody *needs* the images the same-day they are released. A small minority of users with only 1 computer that has no DVD burner or USB port shouldn't be considered for this decision, because dropping languages from the images (while necessary in the short term) is a big step backwards and we can't hinder adoption of the distro to accomodate 20 year old PC setups. Cheers the noo, Graham -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org